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Human Resources Management – How to Get Started

Tom Spencer

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. Talent Acquisition. The goal of compensation teams is to develop competitive compensation packages to recruit and retain strong talent.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement. Let’s first look at the balance sheet. Therefore, the balance sheets of physical and digital companies present entirely different pictures.

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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Organizational capabilities include talent, structure, and culture. Start with talent. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. Indeed, the cold reality is that for most, progress is agonizingly slow.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business

Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. The more we leverage human talent with machines, the more important it will be to have leaders who not only recognize but embrace the great moral dilemmas that organizations face.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Entrepreneurs need to learn that highlighting their own growth attracts talent, investors, and customers. Mayors and other public officials need to learn that communicating growth helps make their cities more attractive to businesses and investors and helps them to compete with megacities for talent.

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There’s No Wrinkle in Time for the Time-based CFO

Free Agent CFO

” But the CFO coach reminded her that being a past-based CFO is a gift and to use that talent wisely. Her leadership team loves her, and the CEO now only calls her a perfectionist just 2-3 times a year. The balance sheet is dull and boring with almost no debt. It’s one of those balance sheets that lacks drama.